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CONFERENCE OF MAYORS AND OTHER CITY OFFICIALS 
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ADVISORY COMMITTEE CONFERENCE OFFICERS 
ARNOLD W. BRUNNER, New York ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY HON. JOHN J. IRVING, PRESIDENT 
NELSON P. LEWIS, NEw YorRK 105 EAST 22nd STREET Hon. JAMES T. LENNON, VICE-PRESIDENT 
EDWARD B. GREEN, BUFFALO NEW YORK CITY Hon. FRANK J. BAKER, TREASURER 
DANIEL L. TURNER, NEw YoRK WILLIAM P. CAPES, SECRETARY 
CHARLES DOWNING LAY, NEw YorK EDWARD A. MOREE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY 
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TO THE MAYORS AND HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. 


To facilitate the work of answering the questions submitted, the Advisory Committee suggests 
that the Mayor refer the attached questionaire either directly or through the City Plan Commission, 
if one has been appointed, to the departments, bureaus or officials named below with the request that 
they answer as soon as possible the questions assigned to them. As each department completes its 
work the executive should return the questionaire to the Mayor or Commission, as the case may be, 
so that it may be sent to the office of the Conference Secretary where the answers of each questionaire 
will be tabulated. A copy of the questionaire containing all answers will then be sent to the Mayor 
for the city files. j 

The questions each department is requested to answer are as follows: If some cities do not have 
one or more of the departments, bureaus or officials named below, the Mayor is requested to refer the 
questionaire to that sub-division of his administration having charge of the work to which the questions 
relate: . 


Mayor--byic, 0, 4,0, 6,7, 11,:155.17,,20, 21, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 95,60, 51, 108, 109, 129, 1380 (Questions 
131-166 inclusive, to be referred by Mayor to proper department, bureau or official) 2038, 205, 
206, 207, 208, 1 and 2 under footnote on last page. 


Department or Board or Commissioner of Public Works—8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 30, 42, 43, 44, 45, 
ee oeroe, Woy, 06.004, 65, 14, 70, 79, 80, 101, 102, 29Py 192,193,194. 195, 209, 210, 211. 


Tree Commission or Department or Bureau having care of shade trees—94 to and including 100. 


Engineering Department—19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 49, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67, 70, 71, 
Hoe tae COnthy 68, 204. 


Superintendent of Sewers—184, 185, 186, 187. 

Superintendent of Streets—196, 197,198, 199. 

Superintendent of Water—176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183. 

Commissioner or Bureau of Markets—167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175. 


Park Department or Official having charge of Parks and Playgrounds—104 to and including 128, 
except 108 and 109. 


Building Inspector or Bureau or Department having charge of the regulation of housing conditions 
and buildings—81 to and including 93. 


Health Department—18, 188, 189, 190, 200, 201, 202. 
Department of Taxation—30a, 39. 

City Treasurer or Comptroller—36, 37, 38, 40, 41. 
Police Department—65, 66, 103. 

Fire Department—69, 212, 213, 214. 


If your city has a Board of Public Welfare, the following questions, referred above to some other de- 
partment or bureau, could be referred to this body instead—7, 11, 15, 17, 18, 112, 117, 118, 120, 
124, 127, 128, 129. 


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ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF CITY PLANNING EXPERTS OF THE CONFERENCE 
OF MAYORS AND OTHER CITY OFFICIALS OF NEW YORK STATE 


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CITY PLAN COMMISSION: 
1. Has a City Plan Commission been appointed under Chapter 699, Laws of 1913? 


2. Names of Commissioners? 


3. If not, what has been the reason for not appointing a commission? 


‘4. Does the Mayor intend to appoint a City Plan Commission? 


5. If a commission has been appointed, what has it accomplished to date? 


PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS: 


6. Give names of any civic organizations in your city interested in city planning. 


SURVEYS: 
7. Has city or any private organization made a survey: 
a. Topographical? d. Social Conditions? 
b. Historical? e. Industrial and Commercial? 


c. Hygienic? 
MAPS: 
8. Has city a map showing population growth from period to period by wards or election 
districts? 


9. Has a “resident map” been made of your city showing location of residential districts? 


10. Has a “place of work map” been made of your city showing locations of industries and 
other enterprises giving employment? 


11. Has any study been made to ascertain direction and tendency of growth of ° 
a. Manufacturing districts? 
b. Residential districts? 
c. Retail districts? 
d. Other districts? 
e. If so, by whom? 


12. Has city maps of surrounding country to show relation of city to surroundings? 
13. Has city made survey of street trees and are these mapped? 

14. Have you a sidewalk and street paving ‘map of your city? 

14a. Has your city a map showing underground pipe and conduit lines? 

15. Has your city a juvenile delinquency map? 

16. Have you a street accident map? 

ie Deiis EEe i a map of commercialized amusements? 

18. Has city a map on which is plotted tuberculosis cases for the last two years? 


19. Has the U. S. Geological Survey completed a topographical survey including the city and 
environs? 


19a. Has your city a map on which has been plotted all fires during the last two years and 
showing location of fire hydrants and fire houses? 


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44. How is the cost of pavement renewals met, by public expense or by local assessment 
either in whole or in part? 


THE CITY PLAN: 
45. Has plan for layout of entire city been adopted? 


46. For what per cent of city area has a definite plan been adopted? 
47. What section or sections does this include? 
48. Who is in charge of work? 


49. Is there much property not available for improvement because streets are not 
a. plotted? 


b. opened? 
50. Is any attempt made to group public buildings? 
51. Who studies and decides on the location of new public buildings? 


52. Who takes the initiative in the preparation and adoption of a street plan covering the 
territory not yet planned? 


03. Is it possible for real estate developers to make their own plan without regard to the city 
authorities, and by selling lots and building houses fasten that plan upon the city? 


STREETS: 


54. Are new streets designed with any idea of fitting the natural conditions of the grounds 
and needs of traffic, or are they simply an extension of the present system? 


59. Are they mostly uniform in width, or do they vary in width according to probable needs 
of traffic? 


56. Are some of the streets especially designed for the accommodation of future trolley lines? 


57. Do present streets provide for circulation of traffic and direct access from one district to 
another? 


58. If not, should more streets be opened? 
59. Are grades too steep? 


60. What is the average width of roadways (between curbs) in business districts? 
In residential sections? 


61. What is the average width of sidewalks (not including planting strip) in business dis- 
tricts? In residential sections? 


62. Is any attempt made to plan for minimum highway and street widths (and therefore 
reduce the cost) in cases where streets which can never be part of the general traffic circulation? 


63. Has any study been made with a view to adapting the width of roadways and sidewalks 
to the traffic they are called upon to bear? 


64. Have studies been made in congested districts of possible street widenings, of extensions, 


of cutting through new streets and of removal of poles and of encroachments, with the idea of 
relieving this congestion? 


STREET TRAFFIC: 
65. Are delays due to congestion of traffic frequent and annoying? 
66. Do you have traffic regulation? 
67. Have traffic counts (census of vehicular traffic) been made at critical points? 


68. Has study been made of traffic by streets with a view to segregating slow and rapid 
traffic? 


69. Are street conditions aside from paving satisfactory to the Fire Department? 


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70. What is minimum width permitted for a roadway between curbs? 
Total street width? 


“1. What are the standard highway widths (give proportion of roadway and sidewalk for each 
width of highway). 


72. Do you have central parking strips for trolleys? 


BUILDING LINES: 
73. Are streets and building lines the same? Are there set back 
restrictions? 


74, Are they ever fixed with the idea of keeping buildings back in order to allow future 
widening of streets without destruction of improvements? 


a. by ordinance? ” b. by covenant? 


75. Has study been made to ascertain encroachments in business streets? 


PAVING: 
76. Miles of streets paved with: 
Stone block? Brick? 
Wood block? Macadam? 
Asphalt? Other types of pavement? 


77. Miles of streets officially adopted but not paved? 
78. Miles of streets on city map not opened? 


79. Has city a definite paving program, that is, proper kinds of pavements for streets having 
grade, those in tenement districts, manufacturing distiicts, business districts, residential districts, 
and on which schools and hospitals are located? 


80. Who determines the character of street paving to be used? Is it the abutting property 
owner, or can it be controlled by some municipal authority having in mind a consistent scheme for 
street paving? 


HOUSING: 
81. Give average size of house lots? 


82. Are alleys in the middle of the block permitted? 


88. Are there districts in your city which are restricted? 
a. according to height of buildings? 


b. according to percentage of lot that may be occupied by buildings? 


c. according to use of buildings, i. e., are certain noxious trades, such as tanning, slaugh- 
tering, etc., confined by law, ordinance or department regulation (state which) to definite specified 
districts? 


84. Are industries generally confined to any specified section or sections of the city? If so, 


how? 


85. Are any sections of the city restricted to residence purposes? 
How? 


86. If so, is there a distinction made between one and two family houses and dwellings con- 
taining three or more families? 
If so, how? 


87. Is there a tendency in your city for industries to move from downtown districts to the 
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90. What is the greatest proportion of a corner lot that may be covered by a dwelling? 

91. What is the greatest portion of an interior lot that may be covered by a dwelling? 

92. What is the minimum depth of a rear yard for dwellings permitted? 

93. Have you many large blocks (more than 200 feet on their smaller dimensions) ? 
TREES IN STREETS: 

94. Streets planted with trees in miles: 


1910 to date? 1900 to 1910? Previous to 1900? 


95. Is tree planting included as part of the original street improvement, and is the planting 
of trees and shrubs under the control of the municipal authorities or is it left to private initiative? 


96. How are shade trees cared for: 
a. Special appropriation? (Give amount.) 
b. Funds of Commissioner of Public Works? 
97. Is there an official or commission charged with the care of shade trees? 
98. Title and salary? 
99. Has city a systematic policy of tree planting? 


100. Describe briefly. 


STREET SIGNS: 
101. Have you street signs at all corners? 


102. Have you a satisfactory system of street numbering? 


If so, what? 


STREET ACCIDENTS: 
103. If possible, give reports on street accidents for 1913: 
Number of injured? Children Adults 


Number of killed? 


PARKS AND PUBLIC RECREATION: 
Parks: 
104. Number of parks? 


105. Area of undeveloped park land? 

106. Number of playgrounds? 

107 ‘Total area of playgrounds? 

108. Do you consider parks and playgrounds as an integral part of the plan of your city, or do 


you regard them as something the need for which will be met when the necessity arises, at which 
time property, not the most desirable, but most available will be taken for the purpose? 


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109. What provision is being made for the need for more parks and playgrounds in the future? 
110. Is the use of parks: 
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Considerable? 
Great? 
111. Are your parks and playgrounds used during the winter? 
112. What methods of publicity do you use in order to increase the number of people using the 
parks? 
113. Value of park property? 
114. Cost of development to date? 
115. Yearly maintenance cost? 
116. Are playgrounds built and maintained by the Park Department? 
117. Does the city maintain playgrounds on private property? 
MLSs, TS not, by what body or officers are they maintained? 
119. Are playgrounds advantageously distributed? 
120. Do you have volunteer or paid directors in playgrounds? 
121. If paid, state number and total salaries? 
122. Are playgrounds adequately equipped? 
123. Do the playgrounds provide facilities for indoor play in inclement weather? 
124. Are there accommodations for the following sports: 
Number of units or area in acres. 
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Cricket 
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Curling 
Field Hockey 
field Sports 
Football 
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La Crosse 
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Swimming 
Track Athletics 
125. Are parks easily accessible by vehicles? 
126. Are parks easily accessible by trolleys? 
Recreation: 
127. Does any department provide indoor facilities for recreational use? 
128. What official or commission has charge of recreation facilities? 


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131. Are changes of location of railroads desirable? 


132. If so, state nature of change. 

138. Is railroad station to be rebuilt? 

134, Is railroad station to be relocated? 

135. a. Give ite of each steam railway company. 


b. Is there any commuting service on the steam railroads? 


136. What does commuting traffic amount to in passengeres per day on each railroad each way 
from each terminal? 


137. What does other passenger traffic on each railroad amount to per day each way from each 
terminal? 


138. a. Give the name of each street railway company. 


b. Describe each car route operated by each company from terminal to terminals, stating 
each street traversed. 


139. Indicate where short line cars are switched back in the case of each car route. 


140. How many cars per hour are operated through the business district during the morning 
and night rush hours on each car route, including short line cars and those operating through to 
the ends of the car routes. 

141. Between what times morning and night does this maximum operation prevail? 

142. Are the street railroads congested during the rush hours? 


143. If so, over what portions of each car route are the cars overloaded during the rush hours? 


144, How many passengers are carried per day each way on the street railways on each car 
route? 


145. Is the community satisfied with the character of service furnished by the street railroads? 


146. If not, what is the general criticisms with respect to such service? 


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Furnish a copy of each street railway franchise if practicable. 
State how each car route is operated, with horses or by electricity. 


How many passenger trains are operated per day each way on each steam railroad? 
Are the existing steam railroad terminals adequate? 
Give the names or number of the cities or towns connected by the interurban lines. 


Give the car intervals during the rush hours on each interurban line. 


Give the numbers of passengers carried to and from the city by each interurban line per 


Would a change of railroad terminals facilitate: 

a. Your passenger transportation? 

b. Handling of freight? 

What is the relation of the railroads to the street plan of your city? 
Is the location of your railroad facilities advantageous to your manufactories? 
Number of grade crossings in city limits? 

How protected: Gates? Flagmen? 

Number of accidents last year? Injured? Killed? 
Number of grade crossings of trolley and railroad? 

What is city doing to eliminate a ir crossings? 

Are your railroad and trolley terminals adequate? 

Are your dockage facilities ample? 

If not, what changes are contemplated? 

What proportion of the water front does the city own? 


Have you a city map showing transportation facilities as follows: 
a. The routes of all existing or proposed steam railroad lines within the limits of the city 


and its environs. 


street. 


b. The location of| all existing or proposed railroad passenger and freight terminals. 


c. At each street crossing whether the railroad crosses at grade, or over or under the 


d. The location of all existing or proposed docks. 
e. The location of ferries. 


f. The existing or proposed local street car lines or tracks, indicating whether they are 


single or double track lines, and also indicating the lines or tracks of each operating company sep- 


arately. 


g. The location of recreation parks operated by street railway companies. 
h. The location of public buildings, the City Hall, courts, markets, etc. 
i. The location and boundaries of the business district. 

j. The location and boundaries of the residential districts. 

k, The location and boundaries of the manufacturing districts. 


1. The location of any interurban street railways running into or through the city. 


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PUBLIC MARKETS: 
167. How many retail? Wholesale? 
168. Are they meeting the real needs of the people? 


169. Has any study been made of points at which food supplies come into the city and of how 
food stuffs are distributed? 


170. How many open-air markets? Farm markets? Enclosed markets with stalks? 
171. How many licensed push carts distributing food? 

172. Are there any terminal wholesale markets controlled by railroads? 

173. Are there any wholesale markets controlled by groups of commission men? 

174. Are there any cooperative markets? 


175. Is any survey of markets being made with a view to reducing the cost of food stuffs to the 
consumer? 


SANITATION: : 
Water Supply: 
176. Give source? 
177. Private or publicly owned water system? 


178. How frequently is water examined? 


179. How treated: 
a. Bacteriologically? 


b. Chemically? 
180. Is water shed protected? ; 
181 Is supply adequate for consumption and fire protection? 
182. Water rate? 
183. Has city made investigation of possible water waste? 


Sewer System: 
184. Is system adequate and in good condition? 


185. Separate or combined with storm water system? 

186. How is sewage disposed of? 

187. Special treatment? | 

188. Privys? 

189. How many and what methods of inspection ata removal of contents? 
190. Any danger from stream pollution? 


Garbage Disposal: 
191. What method of collection: 


a. By the municipality? 
b. By contract? 
c. By licensed collectors? 


192. How often? 


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193. What method of disposal: 
a. By dumping and covering? 
b. By burning? 
c. By pigs? 
194. Are ashes kept separate? 
195. What use do you make of by-products? 


Street Cleaning: 
196. Briefly describe present system? 


197. Is it satisfactory? 


198. Cost of cleaning per yard: 
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b. Asphalt 
c. Stone block 
d. Wood block 
199. (a) Method of snow removal? 
(b) Is it satisfactory? 


SPECIAL ACTIVITIES: 
200. How many public comfort stations? 


201. How many public baths? 
202. Is there any attempt made to abate the smoke nuisance? 
203. Any municipal restriction of billboards and advertising signs? 


204. What proportion of electric, telephone and telegraph wires are overhead and underground? 


SCHOOLS: 
205. How are sites for school chosen? 


206. Are facilities adequate for juvenile populativ.. 
207. Are there playgrounds adjoining? 
208. Are school buildings used as social centres? 


GAS AND ELECTRICITY: 
209. Does city own its own plant: 
a. Gas 


b. Electricity 


210. Rate for street lighting: 
a. Gas 


b. Electricity 
211. System for lighting? 


FIRE DEPARTMENT: 
212. Is department adequately housed and equipped? 


218. Volunteer or paid system? 
214. Are fire houses advantageously located and distributed? 


THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A MORE USEFUL TABU- 
LATION OF THESE ANSWERS IF YOU WILL FURNISH 


1. GEOLOGIC SURVEY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP SHOWING CITY AND SURROUNDING 
TERRITORY 


9. A MAP OF THE CITY ON AS LARGE A SCALE AS IT EXISTS. 


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